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Saturday, December 29, 2012

Join the Photo Scraps team on Saturday January 19th from 11- 4 pm for our famous and fabulous Demo Day. My first Demo Day card of 2013 will feature my all-time-favorite, cutest-bunny-in-the-stamping-world, Flopsey from MFT. Have a safe & Happy New Year. I look forward to seeing you soon!Cindy

Join me for my first class of the New Year on Saturday February 9th from 12 - 3 pm for an all new card class featuring the absolutely adorable Flopsey from My Favorite Things. Flopsey is the cutest bunny around and in this class we will be making 8 great cards (2 of each of the 4 designs). 4th design and supply list coming soon.

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Hi Everyone,
Due to the crazy weather and bad road conditions, we will be closed for the rest of the day today. We hope to reopen at 10:00 AM on Thursday December 27th. Be Safe and enjoy some craft time today.

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Today we share some wonderful Winterings projects from new Cycling Team Member Kate Blue. She has some icy delights that will have you looking at winter and ordinary household items in a brand new light. But, let's have Kate tell you all about it...As a scrapper who actually likes to reuse things, I decided to do an upcycled project that was more "holiday" themed. My kids cannot be trusted with my glass cookie jars, so I upcycled them their own Wintering treat container!

I loved the white, blues and browns combinations of the whole collection and immediately fell in love with by the snowflakes in the Paper Crafting Kit and the Winterings Chipboard Shapes, so I thought a classic snow/snowflake theme would be nice! I started off by painting an old coffee can with gesso to make it look like snow.I used the Cardstock Stickers to circle around the center of the can and then added the lovely chipboard. I started with the large circle piece and built a large layered snowflake as the focal point. I embellished it with Vellum Tape Strips, the long chipboard piece (wrapped it with some wire silver balls that I recycled from an old wreath) and, a lot of the Clear Cuts tucked into the nooks and crannies.Next came the top. Again I painted it with gesso, added glitter and let it dry. There were pieces of gesso that wouldn't adhere, so I left it since it looked distressed...added a plastic ornament as the bottom layer then starting building more visual layers with a Journaling Card (yup, it's in there!), the adorable banner, more snowflakes and icicles from the Paper Crafting Kit and the Clear Cuts Shapes pack.The last step was to add Vellum Tape strips, Cardstock stickers around the bottom and back, bits of clear beads for interest. I left the back somewhat unadorned to keep the back of it uncluttered & simple so that the snowflakes stayed as my main focal point.Winterings Products:WI-134 Journaling Cards with foil accentsWI-135 Cardstock StickersWI-140 Cardstock StickersWI-160 Vellum Tape StripsWI-230 Clear CutsWI-279 Chipboard ShapesWI-304 6 x 6 Paper PadWI-305 Paper Crafting Kit
Other Supplies: Coffee can, Glue gun, Gesso, Glitter, Christmas decorative spray, Plastic snowflake ornaments, Plastic beadsFor my second project, I decided to do a quick and snowy winter layout. Since I am always sticker challenged, I dove in and took the plunge to use more than one!

For the background, I chose the Dark Denim Brocade paper for the dark pop of gorgeous blue color. I used the fab Winterings 6 x 6 paper to cut out a HUGE snowflake-no machine involved, just some simple freestyle handcutting! I added some gesso on it to give the appearance of snow. Then, it was all about the stickers and the layering of snowflakes from the Paper Crafting kit, Winterings Chipboard and Clear Cuts for dimension. Title work was stickers layered with the Clear Cuts and again, I handcut the JOY subtitle and embellished it with snowflake stickers and more Clear Cut elements...can you see the pattern here?What I love about this Winterings collection is that the stickers have a lot of fine lines along with embossed and debossed style details on them. And, they are thick and heavy so they actually have the appearance of chipboard! For those of us who are squeezing in some "CRAFTY TIME, this collection takes out all the extra punching and embellishing so you can put together great projects in less time. The shaped burlap stickers already come with their own texture and bling; all I had to do was peel and stick! The last thing was adding hidden journaling using the Journaling cards along with touches of gems and beads and you got a 30 minute layout! Hope you will be inspired to use the Winterings chipboard and stickers on your next project!Winterings Products:WI-107 Winterings Stripe/Dark Denim Brocade 12 x 12WI-134 Journaling Cards with Foil AccentsWI-135 Cardstock StickersWI-140 Cardstock StickersWI-222 Layered BurlapWI-230 Clear CutsWI-279 Chipboard ShapesWI-304 6 x 6 Paper PadWI-305-Paper Crafting Kit

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

BoBunny's new winter line, Powder Mountain, is the perfect colors to set off your snow pictures. The combination of grey, white, navy, and other shades of blue will make any snow day look like fun. I started with a sheet of bazzil's admiral, since it is a very dark shade of blue, as my base for this page. I took a sheet of powder mountain scarf and trimmed 1/4 inch off of two sides and mounted it to the cardstock. I then did a little fussy cutting with a sheet of powder mountain memories to get some interesting shaped elements for my page. This sheet is a cut apart with many titles and journal blocks to choose from. After double mounting my photos on white and admiral cardstock, I arranged them with my cut outs around the snowflakes and snowman on the sheet of scarf paper. It was easy to design a layout on the already decorated paper, the hard part was knowing when to stop adding snowflakes to my page! I cut apart, mounted on admiral, and poped up my title from words on the memories sheet. I also made a tag with a glitter brad from another cut out on the memories sheet and added that to a white area on my snow photo. After adding some chipboard embelishments to my page, I could not stop adding snowflakes to the design. I put clear bling jewels on the chipboard ones to make them sparkle. I also had some Queen and Co. snowflake brads that matched so I added them to the centers of a couple snowflakes on the scarf paper. I also used one of the snowflake buttons from this line, but it was hard not to add more! Now was my favorite part, I added stardust stickles and glossy accents to everything on the page! This really makes your page sparkle and shine but needs to bet set aside over night to dry. With BoBunny's coordinating embelishments and their cut apart sheets, you will have more than enough products to make lots of layout all winter long! Happy Scrapbooking!